Re: Root account desactivated

[Paul Mohr <boredMDer74 () gawab com>]

On Mar 11, 2004, at 9:48 AM, MARTIN M. BĂ©noni wrote:

> Hi community!
>
> I have a really stupid trouble: on a Redhat 9.0, the line matching the 
> root account in the file /etc/passwd has been changed from 
> ".../bin/bash" to ".../sbin/nologin". We have the root password, but 
> when performing a "su" command, the system replies that the account is 
> not currently available.
>
> So the question is: how from an user's account and knowing the root's 
> password but having the root account disabled can we reactivate this 
> root's account?
>
> Any suggestion would be appreciated, I do not want to reinstall the 
> box :(
>
> Thanks a lot in advance!
Can you sudo? In that case merely 'sudo chsh root' or 'sudo 
$editorofchoice /etc/passwd'.

Or boot from a linux live-cd, mount, and edit.

Just some thoughts.


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